KING i4it . f v,r,, d i <‘al Gilbert and Sullivan touch to the meeting of the House of Commons this afternoon. As you can imagine, once agdin every bench was occupied, private members even standing in the aisles. The peers* gallery and the distinguished ±x visitors* gallery would have had to be made of rubber to 11 | accommodate everybody who wanted places. In an atmosphere so Speaker declared the session open. Everybody’s eyes were focused on the front treasury bench. With bated breath and panting pulses, the members and spectators .expected a statement from His Majesty*s government on the one question of the hour. And what did they hear? A languid figure arose from the front treasury bench, put on his top hat, and saidi ffHis Majesty *s government have for some time been giving their earnest consideration to the question of provision of relief for the Spanish civil population." Gothic chamber was like the noise of five hundred pins stuck tense you could have heard a The gasp of disappoj.n’tment " that arose m that old into five hundred toy balloons. $ If there was one thing more KIMG - 2 taan another that the congregation wanted to hear nothing about at that moment, it was the plight of the civilian population of Spain. Unruly members.started to scuffle tne-ir feet, to whisper and grumble in their impatience. Finally, the leader of the Labor benches toolc city on them and brought up the big question:- ibtxxi "Has the Prime Minister anything to acid to the stafement he made to the 1rtCz<j ~zt=^ House on Monday?"^asked Major Clement Atlee. "I regret I am not in a position to add anything today, but I hope to make a statement tomorrow ," repliedAStanley Baldwin. Thereupon the Labor leader .pressed another question: "Will the Prime Minister give us good hope in his statement tomorrow, because he will realize the anxiety which is constantly increasing as long as this matter is not dealt with." The answer to that was: "I can assure the Fight Honorable gentleman of the Hnuse that no ona knows it more than I do." So there you are/ We have the assurance of Great ; we=a US>Jt to a ^ n r. rr. * h -■? r> would sav that t Britain^ Prime Minister ^that weessam* knov. as iveC? as l^t doi "A. A dram-tic critic would say that the action of the drama is KING - S ' ' up* In fact> any good critic would give a playv.rignt a spanking who left such a gap in the movement 01 his Dj.ot, The only novelty in addition to the statement o± the Prime Minister, which wasnft a novelty at all, is that Baldwin called an emergency meeting of his Cabirf^^ater evening # A somewhat similar scene took place in the House of Lords, similar but tamer. There*s never any excitement in the Lords. In fact -a good dramatic scene in that stolid Upper Chamber would of. itself almost constitute a constitutional crisis. In the Upper Chamber it was the night Honorable Lord Snell who asked the Right Honorable Lord Halifax whether he had anything to say. Said the Earl of Hallfaju nHf Lords, I have nothing further to add today, but I hope to be in a position to make a statement tomorrow.11 the beautiful mountainside, two miles above Cannes an element of comedy was injected into the situation. r ‘ V\ That’s where the correspondents;of five nations are keeping heroine in tlie piece. a watch over the KING -#4. The comedy was provided by a passage of words between Mrs, Simpson’s solicitor and % Dr# Kirkwood# The newspaper A men wondered whether the solicitor, ,Mr. Goddard, had not brought documents for Mrs. Simpson to sign# tfNot at alltM replied Lord Brownlow, “actually she signed nothing#** Then he explained: “On my'Word of honour I assure you all Mr# Goddard came here for was. to consult Mrs. Simpson about the renting of her house in London#** The corres­ pondents took that and then asked: "How about the doctor?" "The doctor," replied the noble lord# "Oh yes,^the doctor# Well, the doctor's coming means nothing so far as Mrs. Simpson is concerned. As a matter of fact Dr# Kirkwood curious about airplane voyage f^om London to Cannes of did not even see Mrs# Simpson# His only reason for coming is that Mr Goddard is ill and it was considered necessary KING -5 for him to be accompanied by a physician on that flight. That," he concluded, "I assure you gentlemen is all there is to it." To which the correspondents replied with a bow: "We accept Your Lordship's word." But as they went down the hill they said to each other: "Why would a sick man make a hurried air** plane flight all this distance just, to talk about the renting of a house?" "Yes," replied another one* "And if he needs a physician to take care of him on the journey, why does he need the head of the Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital in London?" what sort of a solicitor can he be? - To make matters still more awkward for Lord Brownlow, just after he had given out that plausible explanation the correspondents put met the solicitor. Mr. Goddard was frankness itself* When they asked him about Mre. Simpson's London house he replied: "Rouse? What do you mean house? I came to discuss certain aspects of Mrs. Simpson's divorce." And after that was Lord Brownlow*s face red? JOTS - 6 The Right Honorable Winston Churchill was not the only statesiaan out o;£ oitfioe to perceive an opportunity in the constitutional crisis. There is, for instance, the Right Honorable David Lloyd Oeorge. The suddenness of this whole upheaval found rfL.&.,Tf as he is popularly known, in icings ton, tjamaica. He promptly booked reservations on the next steamer sailing for England, eager to ge^ into it. Tonight we learn that he has cancelled those reservations. That seems to signify thaw ii.G. has private information that the constitutional crisis is virtually settled and that it no longer affords an opportunity for a willing statesmen out of a ^ob to find a new activity. All signs tonight point toward a settlement, and that settlement — abdication. CIEP.VA The crash of the Royal Dutch airliner at Croydon has a sad, ironic note. Juan de la Cierva, killed. And he was an inventor who had devoted most of his life and tal­ ents to making flying safe. His principal invention being the autogyro, the windmill plane. Another bit of irony is the fact that it was an air crash sixteen years a go that got do la Cierva interested in aviation. It made him want to build a plane that could go aloft without any risks. And so after years of experi­ menting, he evolved that curious looking roto plane, that would go straight up or over, and do incredible things. Up to nineteen Twenty-Eight, Cierva was known princi­ pally as a charming fellow, a well known Spanish sportsman, a friend of Fx-King A^phonso, In Nineteen Twenty-Eight his nsme began to loom largein aviation annals, when he flev. his_ first autogyro over the English channel. He was then baiely thirty, when I knev/ him first. Usua ly he made it a point to travel only by autogyro, using the usual type of standa d aircraft only when absolutely necessary . . "k°c‘ay > nerishecl1^ craft not of his own design, he pensnea. of the f e\v times when he flew in a HUIPEKBURCr It seems that one of Monday’s dispetohes did an injustioe to the veteran sky Captain, Ernst Lehman and the orew of the dirigible lilNlOTBTJKGr. There were stories that the great airliner was in trouble and had made a foroed landing in the Frenoh mountains, is a matter of fact, the HIELENBUKGr was moving safely into the hangar at rrankfort- am-Main. The reason for the story was that the h IKDENBIIRG had some slight trouble crossing over the mountains. INDIANS One ol my interesting friends happens to be an ex-chief o* Blackfeet Indians. Discussing American history, he w?/hen you licked us it was an heroic victory* #Hienever we licked you it was another Indian k massacre* Most people admit now that our treatment of the American Abori­ ginals of the unflattering chapters in American history• Another paragraph in that chapter was written today* A Judge for yourselves* A skfiwt' In 1855 the BlackfS« were the rightful owners of some A forty million acres of land in the West. Uncle Sam concluded a treaty with them promising to pay them for their land?—Forty million acres at a dollar and a quarter an acre. When you consider that those forty million acres constitute two-thirds of the rich and valuable State of Montana, you must admit that even at that price Uncle Sam was making a good bargain for keep bargain. From time to time S* himself* But he didn*t & that treaty was amended by Congress. The haggling and niggling continued until the price was cut down to seventeen cents an INDIANS - 2 acre. Seventeen cents on the basis of only seventeen rai3.1ion acres instead of the original forty million! And then we grouse about the World War debts. As the Redskin would say - huh! huh! And now that Blackfoot debt has been finally wiped out. How much do you suppose the noble redman got? A hundred and forty-six thousand bucks — one hundred and forty-six thousand in settlement of a debt of more than fifty millions. Just a token payment! BASEBALL it seems a trifle early to be talking about baseball, but fans all over the country have their eye on that mutiny in the baseball world, the mutiny of the Big League owners a.ainst Judee Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Ever since the Black Sox scandal 01 sixteen years ago. High Commissioner Landis has ruled baseball with an iron hand. Quite recently the club ov/ners took steps to put at least a velvet glove on that iron hand. And tonight the issue between them is sharp and clear-cut. Sports writers are betting that by tomorrow night the little white haired Judge will have no iron hand to rule v/ i th. Tomorrow * s meeting will settle it, the Joint meeting of the American and National League owners in New York. They held their individual meetings today, the National League at the Waldorf and the American in the Commodore. And their proceedings indicated that, tnough everything is serene on the suface, they are about to trim their High Commissioner of his arbitrary power. BASEBALL - 2 ,,, rn ln a 'jeculiar situation. On the one hand tnc^u-oas^ pa id him his salary, on the other he has told them what to do, hov' to run their clubs. So therein be a lot of excitement for tomorrows meeting. iwc±aeui*i£i|*y fche Big Leaguers today declared that there is a considerable misunderstanding about the announcement of their decision to have a les's lively ball. The composition and m thickness of the cover rill not be changed. What they are going to do is raise the stitches so as to give the pitchers a better^iwrJFS&% If the old apple is hit properly in Nineteen Thirty-Seven, it wall go just as far as it did in / a - '■Jr '~ 6 ^- Nineteen Thirty-Six, tA. BALI Perhaps you have heard of the latest art oraze that eoties from France. They oall it "surreal!am”, That's the mania that has succeeded Dadaism, post-impressionism, futurism and the other lunatioisms that have swept the studios on the banks of the Seine this oentury. when I call surrealism the fashion of the moment, i have to be oarefhl. it was the fashion at eight o'clock this morning, heaven knows what may have succeeded it among the madcap artists. now, surrealism has descended upon us plain folks in these united States. A q James Whitcomb Rily would have said, "the surrealists ’ll get you, if you don't watch outi ” Their prophet on these shores is Salvador Dali* I’he idea of surrealism, he says, is to show the sub-conscious on canvas, net's see what our own Parisien Oertrude Stein says about him. "Dali's art,1 she declares, "is snapshot photographs in color of subconscious images, surrealiste, extravagant, paranoiac, hyph^gogioal, extra-pictorial and supersentive pigeons m the gra^s But it now seema that we are threatened with surrealism right in the inviolate bosom or the American home* For Senor Dali proposes to sell us the idea of transparent furniture made to fit not only the contours but the sub-oonsoience of the person who owns it. /hat would the sub-consoienoe contour of Mae West be? If he succeeds, you may expect to see walls decorated with furs and feathers, and drink out of fur-lined oups. Fainter Dali tells us that we already have surrealists in our midst. The top-notoh Anerioan surrealists^eing the Harx brothers. Maybe the titles of some of fir. Dali's paintings will give you an idea. one is called "A oouple with their head^. full of olouds . '• Still another has the name, ’’Soft construction with Boiled Beans. And a third masterpiece is entitled '’Why not sneeze.” Why not? and s - 1 t - m.